Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1495 Episodes
-
The Surkov leaks
Published: 26/07/2022 -
Ukraine's Revolution on Granite
Published: 25/07/2022 -
Nigerian sitcom Papa Ajasco
Published: 22/07/2022 -
The Soviet James Bond
Published: 21/07/2022 -
Who shot JR?
Published: 20/07/2022 -
Madhur Jaffrey’s ‘Indian Cookery’
Published: 19/07/2022 -
The school for telenovela stars
Published: 18/07/2022 -
Fighting for the pill in Japan
Published: 15/07/2022 -
The man who invented the Pill
Published: 14/07/2022 -
When Tunisia led on women's rights
Published: 13/07/2022 -
Poland's strict abortion law
Published: 12/07/2022 -
How abortion was legalised in Great Britain
Published: 11/07/2022 -
The US’s first gay election candidate
Published: 08/07/2022 -
How the smear test was invented
Published: 07/07/2022 -
Escaping Nigeria’s Civil War
Published: 06/07/2022 -
Japanese university student riots
Published: 05/07/2022 -
The Higgs Boson: A scientific discovery that explains how the universe works
Published: 04/07/2022 -
Hong Kong: Abandoned children
Published: 30/06/2022 -
Hong Kong - Kowloon Walled City
Published: 30/06/2022 -
Hong Kong: The 5-19 football riot in China
Published: 29/06/2022
Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated by the past. We take you to the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there. For nine minutes every day, we take you back in time and all over the world, to examine wars, coups, scientific discoveries, cultural moments and much more. Recent episodes explore everything from the death of Adolf Hitler, the first spacewalk and the making of the movie Jaws, to celebrity tortoise Lonesome George, the Kobe earthquake and the invention of superglue. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: Eva Peron – Argentina’s Evita; President Ronald Reagan and his famous ‘tear down this wall’ speech; Thomas Keneally on why he wrote Schindler’s List; and Jacques Derrida, France’s ‘rock star’ philosopher. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the civil rights swimming protest; the disastrous D-Day rehearsal ; and the death of one of the world’s oldest languages.
